{"id":192781,"date":"2009-02-21T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/21\/retrofitting-stealth-to-existing-airframes\/"},"modified":"2009-02-21T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T11:35:00","slug":"retrofitting-stealth-to-existing-airframes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/21\/retrofitting-stealth-to-existing-airframes\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofitting Stealth to Existing Airframes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img12.imageshack.us\/img12\/3331\/2c212456dbc0475197de8ebzw4.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img13.imageshack.us\/img13\/3500\/b9047907f4c247c7b0bca2ayr1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"375\" \/>Bill Sweetman was at Aero India, and he noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Adff8783a-1885-4567-9cc7-340a81179c86\">the Zhuk-M1E proposed for Mig-29 upgrades has been treated with a bit of radar absorbent material<\/a> (top picture).<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t make a plane invisible, but it will significantly reduce the RCS of an aircraft in the front aspect, so the rule of thumb, about 5m<sup>2<\/sup> is likely no longer operative, particularly when juxtaposed with RAM coatings on the inlets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fighter-planes.com\/stealth2.htm\">fan<\/a>, or the installation of radar blocker screens, as was done with the F\/A-18 E\/F, though the environment in an engine inlet is rather more severe than that found under a radome.<\/p>\n<p>You can see a similar application on the Have Glass II F-16s (bottom, the RAM is white).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the move to AESA radars might provide some additional reductions.<\/p>\n<p>This probably doesn&#8217;t reduce detection much, but it probably does increase the effectiveness of jamming relative, particularly with the necessarily (physics is a bitch) high frequency radars on air-to-air missile seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you may want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sendspace.com\/file\/z2v3l1\">this PowerPoint<\/a> (19.3M) for some perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sweetman was at Aero India, and he noticed that the Zhuk-M1E proposed for Mig-29 upgrades has been treated with a bit of radar absorbent material (top picture). This won&#8217;t make a plane invisible, but it will significantly reduce the RCS of an aircraft in the front aspect, so the rule of thumb, about 5m2 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}